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At this point, I should make a long list of the tweaks, major and minor, that I've done -- note cute push pin showing sticky post, a long-ago request from the old site -- but I have a million things to do, so I won't waste time on petty triumphalism. One big thing, however, is the comments formatting, which I restored to more or less the way it was on the old site.

So, please feel free to leave additional requests for bug fixes, tweaks, or new features in the comments to this post. Thanks!

NOTE I, as an admin, "see" all functionaly because of my administrative super-duper powers and privileges. So, if I seem to be making an assumption that you can "see" something that you cannot in fact see, it's probably what they call a "permissions" problem, i.e. your super privileges are not quite duper enough. So let me know on that. Generally, if I start talking about something you will be able to do, it is my intent that you be able to do it...

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One thing I liked about how it was before has to do with the recent comments. Because urls used to include the post's title, by hovering the mouse over a recent comment it was easy to see what post it was about. Now that the post urls have a numeric code, that's not possible. Many comments are titled 'Re: ... whatever', but one can still set the comment title to something else (which I like), in which case there's no way to know what post it's on without clicking on it. So if there's a way to do it, it'd be nice to have something like a tooltip with the post's title when you hover over a recent comment link.

Hmm... the posts do seem to have named urls now, but the comments don't (and don't include the post's url). (I hadn't realized comments had their own urls, I thought they were just with a # after the post, but I guess that's new to the new site,) So the situation is the same in what concerns the recent comments section. For example, the link for your comment is:

... can't help that. Drupal does try to "gracefully degrade" in the absence of JavaScript, but probably doesn't do it well in all cases. You can turn off the blocks that are JavaScript-heavy from your Account.

UPDATE Adding, that naturally I enoourage people to use the donation link even if there is no JavaScript pop-up!

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win. -- Mahatma Gandhi

From the page source, it appears that there's some Javascript provided by WePay that displays the button. They (or you, possibly), could make it work sans Javascript by adding a strong like this:

<NOSCRIPT><IMG SRC="(URL of WePay's button image file)"></NOSCRIPT>

to the template around the "Please give" link (sorry, just don't have the patience to type all the extra HTML required to show that).

Of course, it's possible that WePay doesn't want you to do that - they may consider this feature copyright protection or some such. Which is why it may end up being something they will have to fix, if it gets fixed at all.

Meanwhile, I know what the link is, and I'm probably one of like two or three people for whom this is a problem...

... and there is an OpenID identities tab on your account page where you can link your Corrente identity to your OpenID identity -- because otherwise (apparently) there's a danger of created two identies, one for OpenID, one for your existing account. I don't want to end up with that, and if there ends up being a ton of adminstrative work sorting that out... I may rethink this option.

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win. -- Mahatma Gandhi

Once I added the OpenID account to my Corrente account, that worked - meaning that I was able to log in as this identity. I think the advantage of OpenID, though, is not having to create a local account. Otherwise, it's pretty much a question of what you have to type to log in.

See, there's not even a preview button any more, so I'd worry about trying to insert an image and it turning out goofy, or a link not being clickable. Would it be possible to just put, say, a 5 minute limit on editing comments?

Have you actually HAD a big problem with people maliciously editing comments?

I've posted on a few boards that only moderated spam out, and it was...well, I'm not there any more. lol.

And I have seen the very occasional use of editing to mess with people, but I didn't know if it was a big problem HERE. Seems like the mods/admin here have a pretty good spidey-sense when it comes to detecting those operating in bad faith and giving them the boot.

Also, I've modded/admined on some HUGE, active forums, and comment gaming is pretty rare. The most common issue is when people YAGE and go back and delete every post and comment they ever made. But even that's not exactly common. Once every couple of months or something.

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